A report from Yale Law School that questioned U.S. prison systems found that in the summer of 2021, nearly 50,000 men and women were held in solitary confinement in the U.S. As the Guardian reported, ...
Basim Floro was 19 when he first entered the Oregon prison system, and was sent to the “disciplinary segregation unit” due to ...
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New York courts bolster limits on solitary confinement in state, city prisons in separate rulings
A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled that New York City Mayor Eric Adams' emergency orders suspending the HALT Act were ...
The illegal practices continued despite a judge’s order last year that corrections officials follow state law on the issue, a civil liberties group said in a court filing. By Hurubie Meko A year after ...
Suicides in state prisons have soared in the last several years, and solitary confinement is a leading contributor, a new report claims. According to the new report from two groups advocating against ...
Prison agency seeks to dramatically narrow solitary confinement law Prison officials are using a novel legal reading to argue that the HALT Solitary Confinement Act doesn’t apply to units where most ...
Some 88,000 inmates of state and federal prisons are in some form of solitary confinement, although it’s not called by its real name. But concern about abusive detention — even on death row — has ...
Children as young as 12 are allegedly confined for weeks at a time with no education or human contact, a lawsuit claims.
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